Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-08
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.


Tuesday Inaugurated governor of Ken
lucky at Frankfort.
THE great phosphate industry of South
Carolina is in demoralized condition.
An attempt is making to form q combi-
nation of the various companies for the
purpose of bulling prices.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER's homestead in
Brooklyn has been Leased, and will soon
be decorated with the unpoetic legend:
FURNISHED Rooms to Let"
The remains of mastodon have been
discovered on farm near Montpelier,
Indiana, where similar discoveries had
been previously made.
Az oil well was shot Tuesday near Cyg
net, Ohio, that flowed 5000 barrels in "a
hours, being the largest well in the Ohio
oil territory.
THE Canada steamer Hastings was
Seized Wednesday evening by the customs
authorities at Lewiston, n. Y, for viola
ton of American Navigation laws.
A COMPANY has been formed to operate
device for utilizing the water power of
Niagara Falls. John f. Kerns is the in
ventor, and has disposed of his patent
for good sum.
G. A. CAMPBELL, an extensive coal deal
or at Boston, failed Wednesday, for $780,,
900 with assets estimated at $250,000. The
assignment of Robert Hare Powell d. Co.,
of Philadelphia, led to .he disaster.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made OF the election
OF Professor Joseph j. Skinner, of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
20 the chair of Civil Engineering of the
Iowa State University.
TELEGRAM from Glenwood Springs,
Col, is to the effect that five whites were
killed in the battle with Colorow's Indians.
Seven bucks and two squaws were killed,
and five wounded.
TIMOTHY CoUGHLIS, the section fore
man held responsible for the Chatsworth
horror, was admitted to bail in $1,000
by Judge Reeves, at Bloomington, ILL.,,
Monday.
w. ST. CLAIR Ross g. Co., paper manu-
facturers and wholesale dealers in envel-
opes, cards, etc, at Cincinnati, made an
assignment Monday. The liabilities are
! $4,000, and the assets $4,000.
THE vapor stove manufacturers in the
| United States are contemplating scheme
/ by which they can combine and do bust
ness under one name. A committee is at
| Cleveland, Ohio, discussing the matter.
/ There will be sixteen manufacturers in
| the proposed association.
| Mrs. MARY FORD, of Locust Valley,
/ Cal, left her money and children in a
! hotel in Jersey City Wednesday and went
\ TO New York to see friend. Failing TO
/ find her Mrs. Ford went back to Jersey
| City, and was unable to find her hotel
| AT Buffalo, n. Y, Tuesday there died q
man who enjoyed the distinction of being
called the king of the Italians He was
John b. Reppo. During the war he
fought CALAMITY for tho Union. He con
tralled the Buffalo peanut trade, and
leaves large estate.
A PETITION has been prepared by the
receiver of the wrecked Fidelity Bank OF
Cincinnati in suit against the directors
of the concern for a sum in excess of 81,
100000 1t is claimed the directors be
traved their trust and are individually
liable for the losses of depositors.
SENATOR JouN SHERMAN enters a denial
of the reports that recently while III Man
itoba, he remarked that the Dominion
Government was perfectly right in the
stand it had taken with regard to the
fisheries dispute. The Senator holds ex-
aetly opposite opinions.
Forty SIX of the sixty four rand Army
posts in Connecticut have taken vote
upon the pension bill proposed by the
national encampment. All but one favor
the measure, which is practically identi
cal with the pauper bill vetoed by the
president last spring.
INFORMATION has reached st. Louis, Mo.
that the President and Mrs. Cleveland
will reach that place Saturday evening
October /. They will remain until THes
day midnight, when they will come tc
the metropolis of the west.
DREsBAcH 4 RosENFELD, the figure
heads in the San Francisco wheat deal
announced that they we're unable tc
accept all the wheat rendered them, a'
they had engaged to do. Rosenfeld made
transfer of all his property, estimated
at 100000 to the New ada bank, which Is
acct pied as identifying MackaY and Flood
with the deal. Bresbach has made an as
Segment for the benefit of his creditors
At once upon the announcement of the
failure the call board adjourned until TO
morrow. There is great excitement II
San Francisco over the collaHse, auc
many suspensions ere looked for thi:
week. The victims of the deal, who are
involved TO the extent of many millions
viii make desperate effort to fix liaeilit!
upon Mackay and Flood.